Evergreen Films
12.05. 2014
On
this day two super hit released many years ago, Bhai Ho Toh Aisa / 1972 that established Jeetendra and Hema Malini
as a pair as they went on to do many films together in the years to follow.
Zanjeer / 1973 altered the destiny of
Amitabh Bachchan as an actor. Bachchan had been struggling to establish as an
actor for some years but all his films were failing at the box-office. Mehmood
recommended him to director S Ramanathan for Bombay TO Goa released in the same year and a moderate success.
Salim Javed saw the film and recommended him to Prakash Mehra and Amitabh was
cast as police inspector, a role many actors had declined. The film established
Amitabh Bachchan as the Angry Young Man.
So
many decades have gone by but we still remember these films, the former for the
super chemistry between the lead pair and the latter for the intensity and the magic
of Bachchan.
Bhawana Somaaya / Tweets @bhawanasomaaya
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